Financial Planning & Services at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying financial planning and services, you may want to check out the program at Purdue University - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and has a total student population of 46,655. In 2021, 49 financial planning majors received their bachelor's degree from Purdue.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Financial Planning & Services section at the bottom of this page.

Purdue Financial Planning & Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning

Purdue Financial Planning & Services Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks financial planning programs across the country. The following shows how Purdue performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The financial planning major at Purdue is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Financial Planning & Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	4
	5
	13
	38

Financial Planning Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the financial planning majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 49 students earned a bachelor's degree in financial planning from Purdue. About 20% of these graduates were women and the other 80% were men.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in financial planning at Purdue are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in financial planning.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	38
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Purdue also has a doctoral program available in financial planning. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Finance

Careers That Financial Planning Grads May Go Into

A degree in financial planning can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	4,830	$92,400
Personal Financial Advisors	3,740	$111,330
Credit Counselors	190	$45,030

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.